The Bosnia Brouhaha

Posted on Mar 24, 2008

The all-seeing eye of YouTube has once again asserted itself, catching Hillary Clinton in an exaggeration of her White House-era visit to Bosnia—a trip that was a bit less harrowing than we were led to believe.

The Clinton campaign has conceded that the candidate may have misspoken, “but there is no question if you look at contemporaneous accounts that she was going to a potential combat zone, that she was on the front lines.” Link

CBS was sufficiently moved by the use of its footage in the YouTube clip to do a follow-up story, confirming the claims of the Internet video: